A high-value property deal on the Jalandhar-Phagwara Highway, just ahead of the Mariton Hotel, has raised serious questions over whether a doctor was allegedly made to pay a premium for a 200-marla plot after being led to believe that a major obstacle on the land had been permanently removed.
The plot, reportedly located beneath high-voltage power lines, had long faced a major limitation because of the presence of the wires. According to information available about the deal, a hotel owner allegedly entered into an understanding with the original property owner that the land would be sold at a much higher rate after the high-voltage wires were removed. The property was reportedly to be sold only through the hotel owner.
The wires disappeared — and so did the original problem
The crucial development allegedly came when the high-voltage wires were removed from the property.
The removal significantly increased the commercial potential and market value of the 200-marla plot. The hotel owner subsequently purchased the property and, according to the information provided, sold it to a doctor who is associated with a reputed hospital.
For the doctor, the transaction appeared to be a straightforward high-value property purchase. The land was no longer carrying the highly visible power-line obstruction that had previously affected its value and usability.
But within days of the sale, the situation reportedly changed completely.
PSPCL returns with the wires
Only around four to five days before today, PSPCL allegedly began putting the high-voltage wires back across the same plot.
The doctor reportedly questioned officials about why the wires were being restored after they had already been removed before his purchase.
The response allegedly left him facing a far bigger problem: he was reportedly told that the earlier removal of the wires had been illegal and that the power lines would pass through the property.
If this account is accurate, the central question is difficult to ignore — why was the property sold to the doctor after the power-line obstruction had been removed if the removal itself was allegedly unauthorised?
From a lucrative deal to a ₹1.5 crore problem
The doctor then reportedly sought an alternative and asked whether the power lines could be redirected. According to the information provided, he was told that shifting the wires through the government process would cost approximately ₹1.5 crore.
That has transformed what appeared to be a premium property purchase into a potentially massive financial burden.
The issue is not simply that power lines have appeared on the land. The larger concern is whether the doctor was allegedly induced to purchase the property at a premium because the hotel owner knew — or should have known — that the removal of the wires was not legally sustainable.